Liverpool, NY – The temperature forecast continues to back away from 90 degrees for this evening’s JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge.

The National Weather Service shortly after noon predicted that Liverpool’s temperature would be 84 degrees at 6 p.m., 25 minutes before race time on Onondaga Lake Parkway. Humidity should make it feel like it’s 87.

There’s now also a 30 percent chance that it will rain on the fast-moving parade, perhaps accompanied by thunder and lightning.

Forecasters as recently as Monday thought it might be 89 degrees with a heat index of 93 as the racers prepared to approach the starting line. The weather service this morning throttled back the predicted 6 p.m. temperature in Liverpool to 85 degrees with a heat index of 89 as clouds and rain moved in.